ABSTRACT
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-fi eld of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that fi eld, as a fi nal resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fi tting and proper that we should do this.
